My sole source of income is poker and I would like to play 4-6 hours a day. I'm going to pick a schedule and follow it for at least 30 days. I'm going to give myself some reward at least daily for following it. I haven't decided on the reward yet.

Gonna start this tomorrow. Hopefully it goes well.

7 alarm
8 jog/basketball
9-10 bfast. watch a poker video while bfasting
11-12 poker
12-1230 snack + poker video
1230-130 poker
130 - 400 lunch/read/nap
400-600 poker
600-630 snack + poker video
630-800 poker
800-12 dinner + whatever
12-7 sleep

<edit> Think I have the reward. Fast food + candy bar daily. I'm going to be going to mostly subway anyways. Candy bar isn't so good but doing it with subway is going to def be enough to keep me on track.

There's some good youtube videos out there for shooting form, but I haven't really seen anything for getting your release higher. I feel like my form goes to shit whenever I try to release higher and I'm not consistent at all. I really like the way kobe shoots and I think that'd be the best form to copy. If I could copy anyone it would be iverson just because he can get his shot off really well off the dribble and in traffic, but it's impossible for me to copy. Anyone have any tips?

I'm guessing std dev is around 125 for most people? What's the equivalent to having 100bi for 6-max at hu? What's the equivalent of move up with 30bi move down with 25bi at 6-max for hu if you want to kelly criterion?

I had to cashout so I had to look at results. It's been about 20,300 hands since I last looked. I think I had about 2500 when I started and had 2700 when I last looked. I thought it was very possible I could be at 2300 right now. I was gonna be pretty happy as long as it around 2500. I didn't look at hm/pt or ptr so I have no idea what my allin-ev looks like right now. I could be even or losing in allin-ev for all I know.

Part of it's rb, part of it's me sucking out on people pretty bad a couple weekends ago in questionable spots where I decided to call, and part of it is that I ran like the sun today and got AA more times than I thought was possible in my last 1k hand session.

I'm going to play as long as possible without looking at results between now and my next cashout. Starting a few sessions ago I could already tell it made a gigantic difference in the way I'm able to analyze hands I'm in during a session as well as thinking about them after a session. I always used to have a problem estimating frequencies of stuff like 3-bets and check raises which I'm having an easier time with now too.

It's incredibly liberating playing without results. There were so many times before where I would drop 3-6 buyins and figured I had to be making mistakes. The opposite was true as well. I would like to think it didn't affect my play and decision making, but I'm positive it did even if just a little bit.

I'm hoping I can go a month without having to look again.

Diablo 3 open beta this weekend. There goes my volume.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/4963...4_19_2012#blog

Weekend Play: C
Weekend Luck: C

Monday Play: B
Monday Luck: A

I'm gonna rate my play and how lucky I thought I ran so I can look back on it after and see how it matched up with results. Think I'm getting used to 6-max already. Bluffing frequencies and tendencies and value betting lines and sizes are a bit different than fr. I'm just making a note in the blog so I can check to see how results line up whenever I look.

I ran insanely hot coolering people today when the money went in. I got the money in bad a few times in questionable spots over the weekend. Maybe I ran bad getting into those spots and I still think not folding could have been ok, but I won't have a better idea until I play more. I haven't had KK into AA once so far so I'm probably running pretty hot with stuff like that. I have no idea how I'm doing results wise so far, but I'm pretty happy with how I'm playing and I'm still learning a lot. It's so relaxing being able to play without being aware of results. I'm not sure why I couldn't do this before. Maybe I'm getting better as I get older?

I miss fr because I feel at home there and it helps so much for playing live, but man it's so nice being able to grind at 2am and being able to max out on tables at 6-max.

I originally planned to not look at results until at least 20k hands, but after throwing some numbers into this variance simulator I think I need way more hands than I thought:



Even if I'm crushing 10nl the variance is gonna be insane, and if I were to guess I think my winrate right now is 2ptbb since I'm getting used to 6-max and playing with keyboard shortcuts instead of so many mouse clicks.

So how long should I not look for? Do I just not look forever since if I win at only 2-3ptbb even over 150k hands since it's so easy just to run good or bad?

I'm pretty sure looking at the results would do more harm than good just based on how massive the variance can be. If I'm crushing I review less. If I'm breaking even or losing I review more, but honestly who plays their A game when they're losing? Maybe I'll just have my roommate check ptr every couple weeks and tell me when I have 100bi to move up to the next level while I grind away in blissful ignorance.

Oh and man am I going through stars withdrawals. The software on merge is the best non-stars software I've played on, but it's still horrible. I miss being able to play without having to worry about tables glitching out or not popping up.

I spent a ton more time last month and this month so far studying the game rather than playing. 25nl 6-max didn't go so well last month. I was having trouble making so many changes in my game at once, and I was trying out a lot of things. FR is continuing to go well. The more I play the more I find it easier to take at least what I consider a theoretical mathematical approach to the game. I've found a ton of small things I was doing wrong, and I'm still finding things I do wrong daily. This is much easier than trying things out forever.

I got some coaching from rika last month which helped a lot especially for live play. He pointed me in the right direction. I started to focus more on some theoretically optimal scenarios after that and a lot of stuff he was talking about started to click for me. To me this is just a shortcut to understand where every good player already is, and it's easier to work backwards from that.

I got flopzilla a few days ago and I've been using that a lot. The filters are awesome. I had no idea you could setup filters to see how often villain was folding until after I bought it and messed around with it for a few hours. You can see quickly see things like how often villain only continues with a gutshot, flushdraw, midpair or better and then it tells you with what % he continues.

tl;dr graph:

This will probably be my last blog post. I'm gonna take a break from leggo for a while and focus even more on playing.

Today:



This month:

Makes up for yesterday: